Psychology of Criminal and Antisocial Behavior Victim and Offender Perspectives

Wayne Petherick is Associate Professor of Criminology at Bond University in Australia. Wayne’s areas of interest include forensic criminology, forensic victimology, criminal motivations, criminal profiling, and applied crime analysis. He has worked on risk and threat cases, a mass homicide, stalking, rape, and a variety of civil suits involving premises liability and crime prevention. He has presented to audiences in Australia and abroad, and has published in a variety of areas including social science and legal works in the areas of criminal profiling, expert evidence, stalking, serial crimes, criminal motivations, and victimology. Wayne is co-editor of Forensic Criminology, and editor of Profiling and Serial Crime: Theoretical and Practical Issues, now in its third edition.

Dr. Sinnamon’s passion is developmental neurobiology and the structural, systemic and functional impact of early-life experiences on the growing brain. He was among the first researchers to quantify and report the impact of depression on cognitive function in young people. He is the creator of the REPAIR™ Program, a six-step neuroplasticity-based intervention developed to assist children and adults with systemic and functional processing deficits in the brain. Dr. Sinnamon is also the co-founder of the HART-BEAT research alliance at James Cook University’s, Australian Institute of Tropical Health Management (AITHM), aimed at creating translational research links between the basic sciences and clinical practice. His current projects include research, lecturing, providing professional development programs, and clinical practice. Along with authoring scientific papers in peer-reviewed journals, he has also contributed chapters in Serial Crime and Criminal Profiling and Applied Crime Analysis.